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UGA professor wins best book on Ga. history award

SAVANNAH-- A University of Georgia professor is being named author of the state’s best history book of 2011.

The Georgia Historical Society announced Monday that UGA’s John C. Inscoe is the winner of its annual award for best book on Georgia history. Inscoe won for his book “Writing The South Through The Self,” a collection of essays that use elements of autobiography and memoir to tell individual stories of Southern life.

Inscoe is the editor of the New Georgia Encyclopedia and a former editor of the Georgia Historical Quarterly.

The Savannah-based Georgia Historical Society gives it Malcolm Bell Jr. and Muriel Barrow Bell award for the best book on Georgia history published in the previous year.